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Aloe ericetorum Bosser

Asphodelaceae · Madagascar · listed by its genus as a cactus or succulent

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Summary

Aloe ericetorum is a species of aloe native to North central Madagascar first described in 1968.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aloe ericetorum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Aloe

Aloe is a genus containing 594 species of flowering succulent plants. The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or "true aloe", which is cultivated as a source for topical uses and dietary supplements. Other species, such as Aloe ferox, are also cultivated or harvested from the wild for similar applications.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aloe", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Aloe in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent perennial or chamaephyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Aloe in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent perennial or chamaephyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 1 of the 3 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMadagascar · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“succulent perennial or chamaephyte” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) amantedarmanin, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Aloe 198 in the reference

Aloe aculeata Aloe aculeata Tent Cent Aloe Photo: CC0, author not statedAloe acutissima Aloe acutissima Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY, amantedarmaninAloe affinis Aloe affinis Spotted aloe Photo: CC BY-SA, alanbedfordshawAloe africana Aloe africana African aloe Photo: CC BY, Malte KrömerAloe albiflora Aloe albiflora Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, S MoltenoAloe alooides Aloe alooides Graskop aloe Photo: CC BY, katuchkaAloe amudatensis Aloe amudatensis Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Susan BrownAloe andongensis Aloe andongensis Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY, Presha SoogrimAloe angelica Aloe angelica Wylliespoort aloe Photo: CC0, DaderotAloe antandroi Aloe antandroi Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrew HankeyAloe arborescens Aloe arborescens Candelabra aloe Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloAloe arenicola Aloe arenicola Beach Aloe Photo: CC0, author not stated all 199 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Asphodelaceae
Described by
Bosser
Native to
Madagascar
Wild records
3 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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